Quality Management in Teaching

RWTH Aachen

Quality Management and Development in Learning and Teaching

Learning and teaching have long been the step children of complex responsibilities and numerous activities in higher education. Student complete their assessments and written works, but topics such as quality development or assurance in teaching and learning were altogether considered but underdeveloped.  However, at RWTH Aachen, a clear noticeable awarness of teaching had begun in the nineties, through the construction of a comprehensive evaluation and the systematic collection and rating of rankings.

Strategic Goals Anchored in Mission Statement

The university views the targeted, aligned with participants, transparent implementation of different instruments for improving teaching and the controlling of the respective measures as the primary tasks in quality management. The strategic goals and the resulting fundamentals of teaching and learning appear in RWTH Aachen's mission statement, which builds an orientation framework for the development of the university.

Pragmatic Quality Management

The assurance of these strategic learning and teaching goals in the mission statement outlines of the main tasks of quality management in learning and teaching.  This is linked to the challenge, to specify the known generally summarized goals of the mission statement in a way, so that there are concrete starting points for pragmatically conceived quality management.

Practice Relevant Goals and Instruments

A series of concrete, practice relevant quality goals in learning and teaching have been derived and related instruments developed from Aachen's quality management practices in learning and teaching up until now.

This process is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under funding indicator 01PL11068.